(EDIT by BBBen: This post isn't from me, it's from Ice; I'm just passing it along.)
Hi everyone,
After several years and long after when I thought I would finish it, my latest game is finally ready for release. I hope you enjoy it.
Ice.
Mystic Rhythms
The game is built using Adrift 5.0 text engine and includes multimedia images.
The story:
In this game, you take the role of a normal and successful guy married to a gorgeous Russian woman. You met her online and following a quick long distance courtship, you paid for her trip out of Russia and the fancy engagement ceremony that followed. Since then life has been good and you've been the envy of many.
Recently your wife has been nagging you about spending some time together away from home. Unable to say no, you quickly found yourself standing in the lobby of this cozy hotel retreat for a lover’s weekend.
Links:
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fla9bj4wfpftzx1/MysticRhythms_1.00.exe/file
Mega: https://mega.nz/#!g1BiDQCQ!gyglECIpU24RqPjjXcPiXdgX2UvCaAuhWys_sLWcexQ
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Saturday 8 December 2018
Friday 9 November 2018
Pervert Action: Legacy 2.0
After more than three years of working on the game I've finally released Pervert Action: Legacy 2.0 free for everyone! This is the final release of the game. I won't repost all the details here; I'll just link you through to my blogger page where you can get all the details and links: https://bbbenaif.blogspot.com/
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Let Me Out v1.0.0
I've finally got the full 1.0 release of Let Me Out to release publicly!
Synopsis: Let Me Out is a unique game in which you write out the actual words of a conversation between a beautiful, captive princess and her huge, hulking, orc guard! Will you be able to help the princess escape? Or will you get her into more... trouble?
Links below.
Saturday 23 June 2018
2018 Writing Salon: Playtesting 1
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
Thursday 31 May 2018
2018 Writing Salon: Transcript of Complete Game
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon.
Write a sample playthrough of your game. List the commands that a player will do and write the responses that will happen. Think about alternate commands that the player might try. Here is a sample transcript:
If you have problems writing sex scenes, consider stealing snippets from some public domain erotica like the ones below:
Fanny Hill
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305
The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29827
Romance of Lust
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. You can also put your text in Dropbox or Google Docs and then post a link to it in the comments. Make sure you don't accidentally use a work or personal account for the Dropbox or Google Docs files. You can also just email the text to me at losttrout AT gmail DOT com.
It is assumed that any game content you post to this blog or elsewhere as part of the AIF Writing Salon is licensed under the GPL so that programmers can turn it into a game for you.
Write a sample playthrough of your game. List the commands that a player will do and write the responses that will happen. Think about alternate commands that the player might try. Here is a sample transcript:
> kiss herIt shows different commands that you can try and the expected responses. Programmers can take this transcript and make the skeleton of a game from it. Be sure that the transcript shows a complete playthrough of your game from beginning to end. Remember that the writing for AIF games is different from normal writing. Unless you have brilliant prose, it is better to have less writing and shorter descriptions but more choices for the player.
You kiss her.
> Lick breasts
You gently lick her nipple.
> Have sex
You have sex with her. You cuddle with her afterwards and go to sleep.
The End.
If you have problems writing sex scenes, consider stealing snippets from some public domain erotica like the ones below:
Fanny Hill
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305
The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29827
Romance of Lust
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. You can also put your text in Dropbox or Google Docs and then post a link to it in the comments. Make sure you don't accidentally use a work or personal account for the Dropbox or Google Docs files. You can also just email the text to me at losttrout AT gmail DOT com.
It is assumed that any game content you post to this blog or elsewhere as part of the AIF Writing Salon is licensed under the GPL so that programmers can turn it into a game for you.
Monday 7 May 2018
2018 Writing Salon: Introductions
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon. It's not too late to join in! During the Writing Salon, if you write a transcript of a game by the end of May deadline, then a programmer will attempt to turn it into a game for you. If you do have an introduction for the game done already, then you can post it now, so that programmers can start preparing the necessary project files, but the main deadline is the end of May deadline for a complete transcript of a playthrough of the game.
Now that you've figured out what your game is about, you can start writing. You should post the introductory text for their game and declare what game engine you want for your game so that programmers can start work.
I will most likely be the one programming your game. I prefer programming your game using the Inky engine, which is for choice-based games. If you want a parser-based game though, I can try to program your game in TADS3. I can also program games in Twine or Newlife if that's what you want.
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. At later stages of the Writing Salon, you can also use GitHub issues to send text to programmers.
It is assumed that any game content you post to this blog or elsewhere as part of the AIF Writing Salon is licensed under the GPL so that programmers can turn it into a game for you.
Now that you've figured out what your game is about, you can start writing. You should post the introductory text for their game and declare what game engine you want for your game so that programmers can start work.
I will most likely be the one programming your game. I prefer programming your game using the Inky engine, which is for choice-based games. If you want a parser-based game though, I can try to program your game in TADS3. I can also program games in Twine or Newlife if that's what you want.
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. At later stages of the Writing Salon, you can also use GitHub issues to send text to programmers.
It is assumed that any game content you post to this blog or elsewhere as part of the AIF Writing Salon is licensed under the GPL so that programmers can turn it into a game for you.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Pervert Action: Legacy v1.7.0 public release
I’ve just
released a new public update, as well as a private one and there’s a lot of new
content in both!
Download
for 1.7.0 (public): https://www.patreon.com/posts/17673782
Main changes
since the last public release:
- All of the daily interactive sex scenes are now complete! This includes the addition of the full Masami and Rio scenes, plus the finishing touches to the Fumi and Kimiko scenes, which were unfinished before.
- Kimiko and Fumi now have a series of encounters in the cellar, which end with a large Kim + Fumi combo ending!
- A bunch of new, non-interactive fun scenes and new or replacement pictures.
Download for 1.9.0 (patrons-only):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/17620811
Main new features of the
patrons-only release:
- Now when you try to enter Kimiko & Iku's bedroom at night, if you've already had sex with both of them, you'll be able to enter the room for a sex scene with both of them. (This also wraps up the "entering bedrooms at night" game feature.)
- This is a full, interactive scene with both Kim and Iku, just as feature-packed as any of the other threesome scenes. That makes this scene a particularly large update by itself.
- This scene has 38 pictures, making it (I think) the most extensively illustrated sex scene in the game! Also, I think this is the most consistently good set of images I've designed for any sex scene.
Monday 16 April 2018
2018 Writing Salon: Announce Your Story Ideas
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon.
Please announce your ideas for an AIF game in the comments of this blog post. Describe the story arc and the characters involved.
The biggest problem faced by new authors is that they work on ideas that are too ambitious. They decide to write a novel when they should start with a short story. They don't realize that AIF games involve more work than normal prose. All the alternate paths and descriptions can easily add up to a novella-worth of text even for very short games. Another problem new authors face is that don't realize that certain seemingly innocuous details of their story ideas might require thousands of words of writing and code. The work needed to implement a minor character or alternate path can easily grow out of control.
The Writing Salon is not school. You don't get part marks for partial answers. If you don't have a finished game by the end of the Writing Salon, then you have nothing and everyone's time will have been wasted. So it's important to work on smaller, less ambitious ideas that are easier to finish. This is not Olympic figure skating. In the Writing Salon, a successful single axel is worth more than a failed triple axel.
To help you, this stage of the Writing Salon will entirely be focused on helping authors cut back on their ideas and to see alternate ways of formulating their stories with the same core characters, emotions, and sexiness but fewer characters, rooms, and plot points. Other people may question your ideas and challenge your decisions. Please do not become too defensive. Although it's always painful to have your ideas be "attacked" in this way, it is not meant to discourage you but to push you to see alternate ways of formulating your story. You do not need to follow the suggestions given, but you should seriously consider it. You should treat them like comments from an editor trying to help you improve your work. If someone asks you for more detail about your story, then please do supply these extra details. Don't think that you'll be able to figure it out later. You will have to write the text for all those parts of your game eventually anyway, so it's good to figure out the details early because sometimes you won't be able to figure it out later.
Here are some common pitfalls:
Some authors' ideas are based on thinking of all sorts of sexy situations that they want their characters to go through. Although sexy situations are a good source of inspiration, authors become too attached to them even if they are hard to squeeze into short games. Once you have been inspired by a sexy situation, you should think about the characters and why the situation is sexy for them. Then, it's easier to move those characters into different sexy situations.
Do you know why the characters in romance novels always fall in love at first sight? Because writing about people falling in love is both long and hard to do. If you include a romance in your game, you should start with your characters already in love but with some difficulty in the way.
In the last writing salon, we had several people who were interested in procedural-style AIF. In my limited experience, procedural games are designed differently from other games. You should not start with a plot. Instead, you should focus on the simulation. You want to find a situation that can be repeated many, many times but which plays out differently depending on what has happened in the past. You want this looping situation to be as short as possible so as to minimize the amount of writing you have to do.
You don't need a fully realized story arc for the Writing Salon, and not everything important needs to occur in the game itself. You are a writer. You can summarize characters' experiences in the introduction. You can allude to previous events in their conversations. Your game can be a small slice of a bigger story.
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. At later stages of the Writing Salon, you can also use GitHub issues to send text to programmers.
Please announce your ideas for an AIF game in the comments of this blog post. Describe the story arc and the characters involved.
The biggest problem faced by new authors is that they work on ideas that are too ambitious. They decide to write a novel when they should start with a short story. They don't realize that AIF games involve more work than normal prose. All the alternate paths and descriptions can easily add up to a novella-worth of text even for very short games. Another problem new authors face is that don't realize that certain seemingly innocuous details of their story ideas might require thousands of words of writing and code. The work needed to implement a minor character or alternate path can easily grow out of control.
The Writing Salon is not school. You don't get part marks for partial answers. If you don't have a finished game by the end of the Writing Salon, then you have nothing and everyone's time will have been wasted. So it's important to work on smaller, less ambitious ideas that are easier to finish. This is not Olympic figure skating. In the Writing Salon, a successful single axel is worth more than a failed triple axel.
To help you, this stage of the Writing Salon will entirely be focused on helping authors cut back on their ideas and to see alternate ways of formulating their stories with the same core characters, emotions, and sexiness but fewer characters, rooms, and plot points. Other people may question your ideas and challenge your decisions. Please do not become too defensive. Although it's always painful to have your ideas be "attacked" in this way, it is not meant to discourage you but to push you to see alternate ways of formulating your story. You do not need to follow the suggestions given, but you should seriously consider it. You should treat them like comments from an editor trying to help you improve your work. If someone asks you for more detail about your story, then please do supply these extra details. Don't think that you'll be able to figure it out later. You will have to write the text for all those parts of your game eventually anyway, so it's good to figure out the details early because sometimes you won't be able to figure it out later.
Here are some common pitfalls:
Some authors' ideas are based on thinking of all sorts of sexy situations that they want their characters to go through. Although sexy situations are a good source of inspiration, authors become too attached to them even if they are hard to squeeze into short games. Once you have been inspired by a sexy situation, you should think about the characters and why the situation is sexy for them. Then, it's easier to move those characters into different sexy situations.
Do you know why the characters in romance novels always fall in love at first sight? Because writing about people falling in love is both long and hard to do. If you include a romance in your game, you should start with your characters already in love but with some difficulty in the way.
In the last writing salon, we had several people who were interested in procedural-style AIF. In my limited experience, procedural games are designed differently from other games. You should not start with a plot. Instead, you should focus on the simulation. You want to find a situation that can be repeated many, many times but which plays out differently depending on what has happened in the past. You want this looping situation to be as short as possible so as to minimize the amount of writing you have to do.
You don't need a fully realized story arc for the Writing Salon, and not everything important needs to occur in the game itself. You are a writer. You can summarize characters' experiences in the introduction. You can allude to previous events in their conversations. Your game can be a small slice of a bigger story.
If you have something you want to share, just post it as a comment below. Be careful to use a separate account for posting and not an account you use IRL. Anonymous comments are welcome, but it would be useful to tag your comments somehow so we know which comments are from whom. AIF Central sometimes has difficulties dealing with longer comments, so you may need to break up your posts into multiple comments. At later stages of the Writing Salon, you can also use GitHub issues to send text to programmers.
Saturday 14 April 2018
And we're back!
Hey folks,
Just wanted to announce that I'm back at writing CDAF style games, albeit at a reduced rate compared to before. I'll be working on Real McCoy again first with some possible posts for Apocalypse High if I find the time and energy. My tentative schedule so far is to try for at least one update a month, at least until I get back into the swing of things. The latest Real McCoy update (Part 7) is up on the AIF Central Yahoo group as we speak, so go take a look if you like such things.
Due to some complaints I won't be posting here regarding updates anymore (aside from this post of course). There were some valid points in there about me bombarding the blog with posts, so I'll be limiting myself to the subreddit and the Yahoo group for updates. Welp, that's about it.
Letwri
Just wanted to announce that I'm back at writing CDAF style games, albeit at a reduced rate compared to before. I'll be working on Real McCoy again first with some possible posts for Apocalypse High if I find the time and energy. My tentative schedule so far is to try for at least one update a month, at least until I get back into the swing of things. The latest Real McCoy update (Part 7) is up on the AIF Central Yahoo group as we speak, so go take a look if you like such things.
Due to some complaints I won't be posting here regarding updates anymore (aside from this post of course). There were some valid points in there about me bombarding the blog with posts, so I'll be limiting myself to the subreddit and the Yahoo group for updates. Welp, that's about it.
Letwri
Thursday 5 April 2018
2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon
Do you want to write some Adult Interactive Fiction but aren't good at coding? Then join the "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon. During the Writing Salon, if you write all the text for an AIF game, a programmer will take your text and turn it into a game.
Sunday 1 April 2018
2018 Writing Salon: Playtesting 3
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
For these later playtests, you should focus on refining how players experience your game. You should play some of the other games and leave comments about your experiences to help other authors and hopefully they will do the same for you. When reading player feedback, you should focus on their descriptions of how they felt while playing your game and on any problems they encountered. You should then see if these experiences match what you intended for your game. Keep in mind that players are not game designers, so any suggestions they make for actual changes to your game will often be wrong.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
For these later playtests, you should focus on refining how players experience your game. You should play some of the other games and leave comments about your experiences to help other authors and hopefully they will do the same for you. When reading player feedback, you should focus on their descriptions of how they felt while playing your game and on any problems they encountered. You should then see if these experiences match what you intended for your game. Keep in mind that players are not game designers, so any suggestions they make for actual changes to your game will often be wrong.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
2018 Writing Salon: Playtesting 2
This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
For the later playtests, you should focus on refining how players experience your game. You should play some of the other games and leave comments about your experiences to help other authors and hopefully they will do the same for you. When reading player feedback, you should focus on their descriptions of how they felt while playing your game and on any problems they encountered. You should then see if these experiences match what you intended for your game. Keep in mind that players are not game designers, so any suggestions they make for actual changes to your game will often be wrong.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.
For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.
For the later playtests, you should focus on refining how players experience your game. You should play some of the other games and leave comments about your experiences to help other authors and hopefully they will do the same for you. When reading player feedback, you should focus on their descriptions of how they felt while playing your game and on any problems they encountered. You should then see if these experiences match what you intended for your game. Keep in mind that players are not game designers, so any suggestions they make for actual changes to your game will often be wrong.
Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.
Saturday 3 March 2018
Should We Cancel the Mini-Comp This Year?
We successfully revived the AIF Mini-Comp last year. Everyone seemed to have fun making and playing the games. I'm not sure if it's a good idea for it to continue though.
Although the AIF Mini-Comp provides a good focal point for the community to get together, it also causes a few problems. It distracts authors from their other projects. It sucks up the community's energy and efforts and concentrates them on one event, leaving authors too drained to make games during the rest of the year. As a community, it's much healthier to have authors releasing games throughout the year so that there are always games to play and talk instead of just having the community go dormant except for once during the year.
Before the Mini-Comp was revived last year, the community wasn't thriving, but there were still occasionally authors releasing games throughout the year, which kept the community going. After last year's Mini-Comp though, I don't remember any completed AIF games being released. There was a heroic effort by Letwri to run two simultaneous Live AIF games, a few projects were announced on the Reddit, and there was an outside jam that some people entered, but there weren't any completed games that people shared or talked about. I'm not sure if this lack of activity was caused specifically by the Mini-Comp, but it sure is a strange coincidence. The months before the Mini-Comp were much more alive while the months after the Mini-Comp had little activity.
Would it be healthier for the community if we let the AIF Mini-Comp drift away again? What do you think?
Although the AIF Mini-Comp provides a good focal point for the community to get together, it also causes a few problems. It distracts authors from their other projects. It sucks up the community's energy and efforts and concentrates them on one event, leaving authors too drained to make games during the rest of the year. As a community, it's much healthier to have authors releasing games throughout the year so that there are always games to play and talk instead of just having the community go dormant except for once during the year.
Before the Mini-Comp was revived last year, the community wasn't thriving, but there were still occasionally authors releasing games throughout the year, which kept the community going. After last year's Mini-Comp though, I don't remember any completed AIF games being released. There was a heroic effort by Letwri to run two simultaneous Live AIF games, a few projects were announced on the Reddit, and there was an outside jam that some people entered, but there weren't any completed games that people shared or talked about. I'm not sure if this lack of activity was caused specifically by the Mini-Comp, but it sure is a strange coincidence. The months before the Mini-Comp were much more alive while the months after the Mini-Comp had little activity.
Would it be healthier for the community if we let the AIF Mini-Comp drift away again? What do you think?
Thursday 22 February 2018
Pervert Action: Legacy 1.4.1 public release
I’ve just
released the first new public update of PAL in months! (Plus, a new patrons-only
release too.) There are some big content expansions in this one since the last
public release.
Download
for 1.4.1 (public): https://www.patreon.com/posts/17134793
Details about the release are below.
Monday 19 February 2018
Patreon.com/Palmer needs an additional writer!
We have grown quite a bit in the last year, and now we want to keep expanding the studio to create more games. We are now looking for an additional writer for an upcoming game.
https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=47994&p=477819
Our current writer is Annother Wannabe, who is absolutely amazing and I'm sure most of you already know. The reason I wanted AW was his background in AIF and of course, how exceptionally good his writing is. In general, I find that AIF writers have a much better grasp of the importance of sexual tension and buildup to a sex scene. So I'm posting this here in hopes that perhaps somebody else from the community I started off in, and will always love, will be interested in doing something they are passionate about and get a fair salary for.
Note that in that post it says you need Ren’Py experience (mainly because our script language is similar to Ren’Py and hence you would have an easier time starting off).This is a big plus but not required. We have an extensive manual explaining everything you need to know in order to get started, and even the unitiated can indeed apply. The most important factor is that you are strong in emphasizing sexual tension and slow buildup in your story. Have you played our other games you probably already know what we’re looking for. If you are interested, check out the thread I linked to find out how to apply. Please include any previous work that can be relative or write some kind of short story that contains the features we are looking for, should you not have written something before.
Our current writer is Annother Wannabe, who is absolutely amazing and I'm sure most of you already know. The reason I wanted AW was his background in AIF and of course, how exceptionally good his writing is. In general, I find that AIF writers have a much better grasp of the importance of sexual tension and buildup to a sex scene. So I'm posting this here in hopes that perhaps somebody else from the community I started off in, and will always love, will be interested in doing something they are passionate about and get a fair salary for.
Note that in that post it says you need Ren’Py experience (mainly because our script language is similar to Ren’Py and hence you would have an easier time starting off).This is a big plus but not required. We have an extensive manual explaining everything you need to know in order to get started, and even the unitiated can indeed apply. The most important factor is that you are strong in emphasizing sexual tension and slow buildup in your story. Have you played our other games you probably already know what we’re looking for. If you are interested, check out the thread I linked to find out how to apply. Please include any previous work that can be relative or write some kind of short story that contains the features we are looking for, should you not have written something before.
Sunday 21 January 2018
No Real McCoy This Week
Hey everyone,
Unfortunately I'm a bit under the weather so I don't think I'll be managing a post for Real McCoy this week; probably for the best really since we didn't have a particularly huge response in the surveys anyway, so this will give people who haven't had a chance to respond a little more time. Just reopened the survey, so have at it. See you all next week (hopefully)!
Letwri
Edit: Feeling a little better so I may take some time to draft out some basic parts of the story for this upcoming week. I'd sort of like to go a bit larger with this post (ideally double the length of the usual) to make up for missing last week but I haven't seen much response and we are in the middle of a multiple-way tie that really probably needs to be resolved. I'd really rather not do another random thing (sorry, not feeling another spin the bottle scene) so I'm playing with some fallback ideas but I'd hate to take the choice out of the reader's hands.
Anyone out there who hasn't responded yet, this may be your time to shine; pretty much anyone responding at this point would be breaking things up so there's a good chance the next person to complete the survey will decide the events of the next post ...
Unfortunately I'm a bit under the weather so I don't think I'll be managing a post for Real McCoy this week; probably for the best really since we didn't have a particularly huge response in the surveys anyway, so this will give people who haven't had a chance to respond a little more time. Just reopened the survey, so have at it. See you all next week (hopefully)!
Letwri
Edit: Feeling a little better so I may take some time to draft out some basic parts of the story for this upcoming week. I'd sort of like to go a bit larger with this post (ideally double the length of the usual) to make up for missing last week but I haven't seen much response and we are in the middle of a multiple-way tie that really probably needs to be resolved. I'd really rather not do another random thing (sorry, not feeling another spin the bottle scene) so I'm playing with some fallback ideas but I'd hate to take the choice out of the reader's hands.
Anyone out there who hasn't responded yet, this may be your time to shine; pretty much anyone responding at this point would be breaking things up so there's a good chance the next person to complete the survey will decide the events of the next post ...
Saturday 13 January 2018
No Real McCoy or Apocalypse High This Weekend
Just a reminder, no post this week for either Real McCoy or Apocalypse High. Had some fairly minimal responses to both so no extra post this month. Oddly, for the first time ever Apocalypse High is tied with Real McCoy in survey numbers, usually it only has about 75% of the number of responses tops ... should Alice be worried?
Also, kind of curious, did you see your suggestions or comments implemented in the Real McCoy last week? As some of my past readers in particular may recall, I am fond of sneaking in little clues and tricks in my stories, which may or may not come out in a big way later in the story.
I sometimes suspect I go with a slightly too soft touch at times though ... if you've made suggestions or comments on the Blogs, mind helping me out by letting me know if you feel like you've been heard? If not, should I do some kind of 'Behind the Scenes' or spoiler type option where you get insight into some of that stuff? Let me know folks!
Letwri
Edit: Actually kind of interesting, we have a four way tie in the Real McCoy survey as of this morning. We still have until next weekend to get that sorted out, but just a heads up that things are pretty close on the 'who should Alice spend time with next' question. If you have a particular person you'd like to see her with, make sure to chime in, every vote counts!
Another Edit: In a rather impressive distribution of new votes for Real McCoy the surveys remain in a tie. It would be rather interesting were I the sort to analyze such things I suspect. As I'm using it for my writing prompt though, I'll just remind folks to keep voting and hope we reach some kind of resolution. Survey will remain open until Friday so fire away when you get the chance. No one wants another spin the bottle scene so soon after the last one, do they?
Also, kind of curious, did you see your suggestions or comments implemented in the Real McCoy last week? As some of my past readers in particular may recall, I am fond of sneaking in little clues and tricks in my stories, which may or may not come out in a big way later in the story.
I sometimes suspect I go with a slightly too soft touch at times though ... if you've made suggestions or comments on the Blogs, mind helping me out by letting me know if you feel like you've been heard? If not, should I do some kind of 'Behind the Scenes' or spoiler type option where you get insight into some of that stuff? Let me know folks!
Letwri
Edit: Actually kind of interesting, we have a four way tie in the Real McCoy survey as of this morning. We still have until next weekend to get that sorted out, but just a heads up that things are pretty close on the 'who should Alice spend time with next' question. If you have a particular person you'd like to see her with, make sure to chime in, every vote counts!
Another Edit: In a rather impressive distribution of new votes for Real McCoy the surveys remain in a tie. It would be rather interesting were I the sort to analyze such things I suspect. As I'm using it for my writing prompt though, I'll just remind folks to keep voting and hope we reach some kind of resolution. Survey will remain open until Friday so fire away when you get the chance. No one wants another spin the bottle scene so soon after the last one, do they?
Monday 8 January 2018
Apocalypse High Part 2 is live!
... I need to start getting these posts out earlier, but hey it's technically up in time! Take a look on the Yahoo groups forum for the latest post, the PDF version to be uploaded shortly. As always, we have a survey for you here.
Also, don't forget about the Real McCoy survey, which can be found here. Next week will be an off week unless I see significant responses for one story or another, so make sure to send in your thoughts if you want to see more!
Letwri
Edit: Hey all, we're mid-way through the week so I just thought I'd do a little update. So far there haven't been too many survey results (less than five for Apocalypse High, only a handful for Real McCoy as well); still holding out for the possibility that we may see some better response over the next few days though. Keep in mind that if we see enough for one story or the other I'll be doing a bonus post this weekend; otherwise this will be an off week. Jump on in and get surveying if you want to see more!
Also, don't forget about the Real McCoy survey, which can be found here. Next week will be an off week unless I see significant responses for one story or another, so make sure to send in your thoughts if you want to see more!
Letwri
Edit: Hey all, we're mid-way through the week so I just thought I'd do a little update. So far there haven't been too many survey results (less than five for Apocalypse High, only a handful for Real McCoy as well); still holding out for the possibility that we may see some better response over the next few days though. Keep in mind that if we see enough for one story or the other I'll be doing a bonus post this weekend; otherwise this will be an off week. Jump on in and get surveying if you want to see more!
Friday 5 January 2018
Apocalypse High Post: Coming Soon
Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that I will be closing out the Apocalypse High survey to start writing soon. If you want to help influence the story, now is the time; I'll probably be closing it off sometime within the next 6 to 12 hours or so. Some of the more supernatural elements will begin making a more obvious appearance soon, so keep an eye out!
Letwri
Just a reminder that I will be closing out the Apocalypse High survey to start writing soon. If you want to help influence the story, now is the time; I'll probably be closing it off sometime within the next 6 to 12 hours or so. Some of the more supernatural elements will begin making a more obvious appearance soon, so keep an eye out!
Letwri
Monday 1 January 2018
Real McCoy Part Six is posted!
Happy New Year!
Sorry for the long wait folks, a lot of issues the past few weeks and some serious writer's block caused by said issues. I hope it will never happen again but .. no promises, unfortunately. For those aspiring writers out there suffering similar issues, my personal tip is to power through; you may not feel like you've written the best thing in the world (or at least, I never do) but actually getting something on paper (or screen) is better than nothing.
The survey will follow shortly, I still have to construct it. Next weekend will be Apocalypse High, so make sure those of you who haven't voted yet get around to it. Survey link for Apocalypse High can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/4NL5hdPZ2fLXpN6w2
Letwri
Edit: The survey for the newest Real McCoy is here: https://goo.gl/forms/yJwgyJHf56pn8XFJ3
Also, for those who haven't seen it yet Bob Arctor has done some amazing additions to the fan art I previously posted. Check it out here.
Another Edit: I will be taking down the Apocalypse High survey tomorrow to begin work on the next bit of the story; anyone interested in influencing the outcome may way to get their surveys in soon!
Sorry for the long wait folks, a lot of issues the past few weeks and some serious writer's block caused by said issues. I hope it will never happen again but .. no promises, unfortunately. For those aspiring writers out there suffering similar issues, my personal tip is to power through; you may not feel like you've written the best thing in the world (or at least, I never do) but actually getting something on paper (or screen) is better than nothing.
The survey will follow shortly, I still have to construct it. Next weekend will be Apocalypse High, so make sure those of you who haven't voted yet get around to it. Survey link for Apocalypse High can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/4NL5hdPZ2fLXpN6w2
Letwri
Edit: The survey for the newest Real McCoy is here: https://goo.gl/forms/yJwgyJHf56pn8XFJ3
Also, for those who haven't seen it yet Bob Arctor has done some amazing additions to the fan art I previously posted. Check it out here.
Another Edit: I will be taking down the Apocalypse High survey tomorrow to begin work on the next bit of the story; anyone interested in influencing the outcome may way to get their surveys in soon!
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